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Lynne Bernstein, Ph.D. |
Research Overview
Speech communication is a complex system. Effects of hearing loss on individuals' abilities to communicate effectively with speech are the result of diverse facts about this complex system. For example, individual differences in the timing and developmental course of hearing impairment, visual speech perception ability, the language environment, biologically and experientially influenced perceptual and cognitive characteristics, and social-cultural context are likely candidates for determining communication ability under conditions of hearing impairment. Recent technological developments in brain imaging and the analysis of event-related brain potentials, in combination with behavioral research methods, offer powerful methodologies for studying relationships between structure, function, and dynamics in the normal and the impaired speech communication system. An integrative research strategy has been undertaken involving these new imaging technologies in combination with behavioral methods to investigate questions about speech perception and spoken word recognition in individuals with normal hearing and with hearing loss.
Selected Publications
Bernstein LE, Lu ZL, Jiang J. Quantified acoustic-optical speech signal incongruity identifies cortical sites of audiovisual speech processing. 2008 Nov 25. Brain Res. (1242): 172-84. PMID:
Bernstein LE, Demorest ME, Coulter DC, O'Connell MP. Lipreading sentences with vibrotactile vocoders: performance of normal-hearing and hearing-impaired subjects. 1991 Dec. J Acoust Soc Am. (90): 2971-84. PMID:
Jiang J, Auer ET Jr, Alwan A, Keating PA, Bernstein LE. Similarity structure in visual speech perception and optical phonetic signals. 2007 Oct. Percept Psychophys. (69): 1070-83. PMID:
Mattys SL, Bernstein LE, Auer ET Jr. Stimulus-based lexical distinctiveness as a general word-recognition mechanism. 2002 May. Percept Psychophys. (64): 667-79. PMID:
Bernstein LE, Auer ET Jr, Tucker PE. Enhanced speechreading in deaf adults: can short-term training/practice close the gap for hearing adults? 2001 Feb. J Speech Lang Hear Res. (44): 5-18. PMID:
Auer ET Jr, Bernstein LE, Tucker PE. Is subjective word familiarity a meter of ambient language? A natural experiment on effects of perceptual experience. 2000 Jul. Mem Cognit. (28): 789-97. PMID: